Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
The semantics of a language ï¬xes the meaning of its expressions (symbols, terms, or sentences). Usually this is done by specifying interpretations for the. language expressions in a given domain. The interpretation of a name is the. individual it refers to.